Tuesday, December 9, 2014

LOL! Raz has a tramp stamp.

Catfishing

                Let me first start by saying that its really funny that the Raz had a trampstamp! LOL! That was completely unexpected and was worth mentioning.
                On a more serious note, Cat fishing is a modern phenomenon that continues to happen today. After watching the first half of the movie, I discussed it with Dr. Johnson because I really did not see any moral dilemmas in the situation. She explained to me that it is morally wrong to make up one identity. At this time, I thought that Megan was an actual attractive girl. She continued further by saying that if you think about it everyone cat fishes because people only post what people want to see on their social media.
                Thinking about this, I feel that she is completely correct. As Sarte said, what we don't do is just as important as the things that we do, do. Base of this concept, we attempt to make ourselves look good on social media. For example, people will take selfies and put a bunch of filters on to make them look good. I've said plenty of people, male and female, that look nothing like the pictures that they post on instagram. Their personalities are nothing like the ones they post on twitter.

                Of course, in the case of blackfish the circumstances were a lot more extreme. She created alter egos in the form of different Facebook pages and formulated a well developed lie. However, she did it for the same reason we post instagram selfies with filters. She did it out of love and acceptance. Isn't that what everyone wants? What do yall think? 

2 comments:

  1. I think that the need for love and acceptance only goes so far. There are times when you should accept yourself and find others who don't mind doing the same. It all goes back to loving yourself, because if you don't, how can you expect somebody else to do so? Embellishments on social media are one thing, but I believe what she did was on a whole other level.

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  2. You have point there Vuth, but Angela or megan catfishing was simply based off lies. Lies about her identities. It not the same as having your picture filled with filter. that's not identity theft and that to me, stealing a person identity makes Angela catfishing a morally wrong action

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